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Waqf Ikhlas publications Endless Bliss Fascicle-4 http://www.hizmetbooks.org in his explanation of the hadith ash-Sharif, "Ten beautiful things are Prophets' sunnats." The reason why he says wajib about growing a beard, separating it from the others while these ten things are clearly classified as sunnats in the hadith ash-Sharif, is because it will cause fitna to shave or to grow a beard shorter than a handful in places where it is customary to grow a beard. For, a person who incites fame or arouses fitna has been cursed in a hadith ash-Sharif. As shaving the beard will cause fitna in a place where it is a custom to grow a beard, so it may arouse fitna to grow a beard in places where it has become customary to shave the beard. Growing a beard shorter than a handful, however, is a bidat. In order not to cause this fitna or bidat, it becomes wajib for a Muslim to shave his beard to follow the custom of the country in which he lives. It is written on the one hundred and forty-eighth page of Al-Hadiqa: "Committing a bidat is more harmful than abandoning a sunnat. A bidat should be avoided while a sunnat need not be done." It is necessary to follow the custom of a country in order not to cause fitna concerning the mubahs and the things that are permissible, and in the sunnat-i-zawaids. But, in doing things that are fard, wajib, sunnat-i huda, and in keeping away from harams, makruhs and bidats, customs are not to be followed. These may be altered only in cases involving appropriate excuses and to the extent prescribed in the fiqh books. This hadith ash-Sharif shows clearly that growing a beard is not Islam's characteristic sign, that it is not peculiar to the din of Islam, and therefore, that it is not sunnat-i huda. Hence, it is seen that growing a beard is sunnat-i zawaid. For the professional men of the din, it is never permissible, that is, not even with an excuse to follow the customs, to omit the sunnat-i zawaid or the mustahabs. Such people should always grow a beard as long as a handful. It is an alteration of the sunnat to keep a beard shorter than a handful. Calling the short beard a sunnat is bidat, which is a grave sin. It is written in fiqh books that no savant said it is mubah to keep a beard shorter than a handful. A handful is four fingers in width. Measuring it is done by beginning from the lower lip. It is fard for a person who keeps a beard to wet the skin under the beard when performing a ghusl. If he does not wet it, his ghusl and his ablution and consequently his namaz will not be sahih. It is permissible for men to dye their hair or beard any color except black. Also there are those savants who have said that it is permissible to dye it black, too. It is not permissible for them to dye their hands, feet, or nails. For it would be an act of imitating a woman. It is permissible for a woman to dye those parts with a dye, provided that it will not prevent them from being washed in an ablution and in a ghusl, and provided they will not show them to men. It is written on the twelve hundred and twenty-ninth page of the second volume of the 1284 - Istanbul edition of the book Bariqa by hadrat Muhammad Hadimi (rahmatullahi ta'ala 'alaih): "It is not permissible for women to shave their hair and for men to shave their beard. If a woman has a beard she is permitted to shave it. A hadith ash-Sharif declares: "Shorten your moustache! Grow your beard." According to this command, it is against the sunnat to shave the beard. If this hadith ash-Sharif denoted wujub, it would be haram to shave the beard. The book Tatarhaniyya says, borrowing from Tajnis, that this hadith ash- Sharif means: 'Do not shave your beard, nor grow it shorter than a small handful'. Such statements as, 'A person who shaves his beard or who grows it shorter than a handful is not permitted to be the imam. Also the namaz which he performs alone becomes makruh. He is accursed and refused both in this world and in the next,' which are said to have been derived from Tahtawi, or words like them that are said to have been derived from Tafsir-i Qurtubi, do not have any foundation, nor have they been proven to be true." It is written on the thirteen hundred and thirty-sixth page, "It is also haram for women to slenderize their eye-brows by plucking them, and it is permissible for them to pull out or to shave the hairs growing on their foreheads, cheeks, and chins." After cutting the hair, the beard or other Page 139 of 181
Waqf Ikhlas publications Endless Bliss Fascicle-4 http://www.hizmetbooks.org hairs, the hairs cut must be buried or put on a grave or on a place that is not trodden upon, or in the sea. It is not sinful to throw them away. It is makruh to throw them into toilets or into washbasins where kitchen utensils are washed. It is makruh to cut the nails with the teeth. It causes the disease called speckles. It is haram for women to show their cut parts to men. It is sunnat for men to shave their head or to grow their hair and comb it by parting it into two. It is makruh for them to curl or plait their hair. It is written in the book Bahr-ur-raiq, in the chapter Al-karihiyya: "It is permissible for a man to shave the top of his head and grow the surrounding hair. Yet it is makruh to curl and plait it. To plait the hair is to be like some kafirs (disbelievers.)" Also it is seen that it is makruh, not haram to do something forbidden because it is like the customs of disbelievers. Therefore, the hadith ash-Sharifs "Do not be like mushriks (polytheists). Grow a beard!" and "Perform your salat with na'ls on. Do not be like the Jews!" shows that it is makruh, not haram to shave the beard and to perform salat with bare feet. See the chapter on the makruhs of namaz, article 25! It is makruh to fast only on Fridays or to perform the namaz of tahajjud (the namaz performed after midnight) only on Friday nights. It is haram to perform any namaz when the sun is right on top, [that is, during the time beginning from the moment as long before the time of early afternoon prayer as the time called Tamkin till the noon prayer.] A more dependable word is that of those savants who say that it is haram to perform any namaz during that time even on Fridays. On Fridays souls come together and meet one another. Graves are visited. Torment in graves is stopped on that day. According to some savants, believers' torment does not begin again. But a disbeliever's torment continues until Rising Day except on Fridays and in Ramadan. Those believers who die on that day or during that night are never tormented in their graves. Hell is not very hot on Friday. Hadrat Adam (alaihissalam) was created on Friday. He was taken out of Paradise on Friday. Those who will be in Paradise will see Allahu ta'ala on Fridays. The following passage is translated from Riyad-un-nasihin: Allahu ta'ala has assigned Friday to Muslims. He declares at the end of Juma sura: "O my slaves who have been honored with iman! When the adhan (adhan) of early afternoon prayer is said on Friday run to the mosque to listen to the khutba and to perform Friday prayer. Stop buying and selling! Friday prayer and the khutba are more useful to you than your other affairs. After performing Friday prayer you may leave the mosque and disperse so that you can do your worldly affairs. You work, and expect your sustenance from Allahu ta'ala. Remember Allahu ta'ala very often so that you will be saved!" After the namaz those who want to work may go out to work, and those who want to spend their time reading the Qur'an al-karim and praying may stay in the mosque. Buying and selling is sahih during the prayer time, yet it is sinful. Rasulullah (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) declared: "If a Muslim makes a ghusl and goes to the mosque for Friday prayer, his week's sins will be forgiven and he will be given blessings for each step." A hadith ash-Sharif declares: "The most valuable of days is Friday. Friday is more valuable than the days of 'Iyd and the day of Ashura (the tenth day of Muharram). Friday is the believers' day of feast in this world and in the next." Another hadith ash-Sharif declares: "Allahu ta'ala seals the hearts of those who do not perform the Friday prayer. They become unaware." Another hadith declares: "If a person does not perform three Friday prayers though there is no hindrance, Allahu ta'ala seals his heart. That is, he can never do any good." A person who does not perform a series of three Friday prayers without a good excuse becomes a munafiq. Abu Ali Daqqaq advised three things as he died: "On Friday perform a ghusl! Every night go to bed with an ablution! Remember Allahu ta'ala every moment!" A hadith ash-Sharif declares: "On Fridays there is a moment when any prayer a believer sends is not refused." Some savants said that that moment is Page 140 of 181
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